WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:07.599 Are you doing. Welcome to the Rugby League Coach Podcast, 2 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:10.800 episode two hundred and fifty six and we're in season 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:14.279 four of it. My name is Lee Addison. Good morning 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:18.399 from quite chilly Brisbane this morning. And on that note, 5 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.079 I just want to apologize again that this podcast is 6 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:28.199 out later than it's very early morning normal slot. That's 7 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:32.240 because of my work schedules at the moment. It's just 8 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.719 getting a little bit hard for me to record before 9 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:38.600 the time that I'm recording now, which is Monday morning 10 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:43.320 Brisbane time. I've already just recorded SUPERIK three sixty with 11 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:48.560 John Davidson and I'm now recording this obviously. Look, I 12 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:51.200 want to hear from you. If you were a regular 13 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:55.920 listener who listened at four am, five am Australian Eastern 14 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:00.679 Standard Time or whatever the time zone is at the time, 15 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:05.719 and if this has really affected you and your listening cycles, 16 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.959 please let me know. Get in touch at Rugby League 17 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.400 Coach on Facebook or Instagram, send me a message or 18 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:16.680 rite underneath one of the posts, or email me admin 19 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:19.439 at Rugby League Coach dot com to tay you. Because 20 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.239 I can't emphasize enough. I do this podcast for you. 21 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:26.680 I do this podcast for coaches and anybody interested in 22 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:29.920 the long term development of rugby league in terms of 23 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:35.719 beyond just the NRL and Super League. I'm the owner 24 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:37.959 of Rugby League coach dot Com dotey you. I set 25 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:43.359 that up because I was so frustrated that there was 26 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.719 a lack of resources for rugby league coaches. I'm a 27 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:50.319 big reader. I've got over six hundred books at home, 28 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.480 and I think I left about two hundred in the 29 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.079 UK when I moved over to Australia. So I think 30 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.480 I'm a reader and I spend at least one hour 31 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:05.719 every day reading something at least and I was so 32 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.919 frustrated at the lack of rugby league coaching material, so 33 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:11.280 much so that I set up Rugby League coach dot 34 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:14.439 Com to te you. Within two years, it became the 35 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:20.120 world's biggest online rugby league coaching resource. I've also been 36 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.199 a coach mentor, a coach educator and a coach consultant 37 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:29.400 for so much of the last decade. And I also 38 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:33.960 wrote Rugby League Coach Thirteen Game Changing Conversations to Transform 39 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.080 Your Coaching and released it in January twenty twenty five. 40 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:44.360 So everything I do is about helping coaches and I've 41 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.919 never been happier in my rugby league life in terms 42 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:54.039 of helping other coaches. My water consumption is significant because 43 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:58.639 I just love water, and my water consumption is sponsored 44 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.719 by the Global League Network you can find on Global 45 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:08.159 League Dot Network. And will say, however, they probably haven't 46 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:11.240 sponsored the drink and consuming today because I'm recording in 47 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.719 the morning, I'm having a cup of good old Yorkshire tea. 48 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:18.400 There'll be people in Yorkshire right now who'll be going 49 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.240 what a legendary is drinking Yorkshire tea. There'll be many 50 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:24.840 people outside of Yorkshire too, thinking that it probably is 51 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:28.280 the best tea on earth. I've got a question last 52 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:32.879 week from somebody in clublandswer do you just riff this podcast? 53 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:37.919 And basically yes, I do. I put some ideas on 54 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.639 paper in terms of running sheet, but I just have 55 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:45.560 little notes. I e. Say, you know, talk about this 56 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:51.840 now and then I'll just pontificate for however long. But 57 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:57.039 some parts obviously I'm reading from a sort of script 58 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.639 as well, so it just varies. But yet mostly I 59 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.560 just if this podcast. I did a session last week 60 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:07.039 with the team. I won't say you they are or 61 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:11.319 where it was or anything like that. And one of 62 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:17.720 their significant traits, if you like, is that they struggle 63 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.720 to concentrate for the full set of something. So for example, 64 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:24.639 if they did six tackles on tackle shields, the first 65 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:27.800 two would be good, and then number three and four 66 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:29.600 they just do it because they have to, and then 67 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.839 the coach gets upset, and then they do five and 68 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:36.639 six a bit harder, and it's actually translated into their 69 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:40.279 game throughout the year. And this just shows you how 70 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:43.959 important standards are. It shows you how important keeping on 71 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:49.839 top of things is. They are playing games now where 72 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:52.240 they'll play well for five ten minutes and then drop 73 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:56.360 off for five ten minutes, and couple that with some 74 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:00.199 mental difficulty and you'll know this. You'll know you know 75 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.920 teams of younger players who get down on each other 76 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:10.560 if they if things go wrong. And combine that with 77 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:17.079 the attitude of of only focusing for say two tackles 78 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.000 and then and then number three and number four not 79 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:24.319 being up to scratch. Well, that's manifested in the game. 80 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:28.279 So what's the counter to that. It's about It's about 81 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.560 making sure that as a coach your standards are ultra high. 82 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.639 I e. If I ask you to do six tackles, 83 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:36.959 I want tackle one to be good and the best 84 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:40.319 you can do, and then I want tackle two to 85 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:43.680 be better than tackle one, and I want number three 86 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:45.759 to be better than number two, and so on and 87 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:50.560 so forth. Not the mentality that I've got six tackles 88 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:52.800 to do. And this can be in a set as well. 89 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.920 Six tackles, let's let's tackle. Well, let's kill the ruck. 90 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.639 Yeah we've done that. Yeah we've done it. And then 91 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.199 just the next two plays and four the opposition get 92 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:04.879 a ruttle on because you're not concentrating the same. So 93 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.240 it's a concentration thing. So much of this game is 94 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:11.079 about mentality, about staying in the contest for as long 95 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.199 as you can. And I think that's why when you 96 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.279 look at younger teams, that's why they can play well 97 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:20.879 one week and look like a completely different team the 98 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:23.000 opposite week. Although that seems to be happening in the 99 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.879 NRL quite a lot these days too, but that's a 100 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:29.199 different issue. But even all the way up to under twenties, 101 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:32.120 when we had the National under twenties, the amount of 102 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:35.519 times of scoreboard was fifty to thirty or forty to 103 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.839 twenty or something like that. And it's because of concentration, 104 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:44.079 as well as ability to play on both sides of 105 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:47.959 the football, offense and defense. I'm going to talk through 106 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:53.720 twenty principles I try to live by, but they form 107 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.319 a lot of my coaching philosophy too, and my coaching principles. 108 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:01.759 Some of them have collected over the years through coaching teaching, 109 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.720 but quite frankly, a lot of this has come from 110 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:11.959 making mistakes, but also learning from some pretty awesome people. 111 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:15.759 I don't claim to get these things right every day, 112 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.800 so I'm certainly not talking down to you, and so 113 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.199 you must be like me. This is what we try 114 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:24.399 and do every day, right, So it's all we're always 115 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:26.240 learning every day out but we're always trying to get 116 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.800 better every day. That's the whole theme of this Rugby 117 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:33.560 lea Coach podcast, which has been telling you this for 118 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:40.560 the last four years. Number One, don't follow the herd. 119 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:47.720 Don't believe something just because everyone else does. The best 120 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:52.240 coaches think for themselves. I'll give you a perfect example. 121 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:57.959 I'll give you two perfect examples. As Hazla got his 122 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:02.920 forwards passing in twenty twelve to twenty thirteen ish, now 123 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.399 all of a sudden, everybody has teams were forwards try 124 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:13.040 and pass. My question is why I just took a 125 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:14.480 swig at my tea. Then. I don't know if you've 126 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:17.079 heard it. I apologize if you did. But it's just 127 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:25.759 so inviting. Why does everybody pass? Why do well forward pass? 128 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:29.759 Some of them pass and they can't do it. I 129 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:33.320 always say, if edrem Mawley was running at you, you'd 130 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:39.639 be glad if he passed. Right. Nobody challenges why. I'll 131 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:41.720 give you another one now, the way shape has changed, 132 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.200 attacking shape. I'll tell you what I coach, touch line 133 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:49.480 to touch line shape. Field balance. Everybody spread across the 134 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:56.039 field and in that field balance. If you imagine you're nine, 135 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.759 you're seven, and you're six, and yes, I do play 136 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:03.159 with four pivots some time, seven, six, thirteen and one right, 137 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.759 But anyway, if you imagine the nine, seven and six, 138 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:07.399 If you imagine the nine is at the front to 139 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:10.600 play the ball, the seven and six are in front 140 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:14.720 of everyone else. That leaves you ten players. They can 141 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.840 have a channel each divide the field. That's sixty eight 142 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:24.000 meters by ten. That means everybody has about six point 143 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:27.759 eight meters nearly seven meters to manipulate side to side 144 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.600 as long as they're in that channel. And the key 145 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:32.879 thing is if a fullback came across and went into 146 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:37.519 somebody else's channel, then that somebody else has to go 147 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:40.840 into the foot What was the fullbacks channel? Right, So 148 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:45.320 let's just think on those principles for a moment, and 149 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.120 for the full back you can also say the look 150 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:53.799 as well. There's plenty of room to manipulate opposition defenses 151 00:09:53.840 --> 00:10:01.399 within that. That's how I coach football. Basically, we've had 152 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.000 an outbreak in the last I would say five or 153 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:09.559 six years of NURL teams having a shape where they 154 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.759 go into out they sort of if you look at 155 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:15.080 wings and centers now, for some reason, they do a 156 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:20.039 forty five meter angle, a forty five degree angle, sorry, 157 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:25.360 almost towards the corner flag so often. Well, my first 158 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:29.000 question to that was why. I asked my old palell 159 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:34.000 Ronaldo Mulatalo, my old player, why do they do that? 160 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:37.039 And he sort of explained it to me, but I 161 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.879 didn't quite get what he was saying. It's basically to 162 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:45.000 keep the opposition getting this to your angles. I think 163 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:49.639 I'm a deep rugby league thinker. I think two hundred 164 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:54.039 or something podcasts will express that and I can't get 165 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:57.519 my head around why teams do this all the time. Anyway. 166 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.720 I've had people right to me and try and explain, 167 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:05.080 and it just I still can't get my head around it. 168 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:08.759 There are teams in juniors now try and get just 169 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:17.320 copying it, not questioning, not challenging, not contemplating anything else 170 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:20.000 was trying to do it. And I know of a 171 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:23.559 team that did this that I used to coach star 172 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:29.360 The new coach did this and there were bottom of 173 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:30.960 the ladder or near the bottom of the ladder, not 174 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.799 winning anything. And then a few assistants got into the 175 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:36.879 coach's ear and said, you need to go back to 176 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:40.159 the way Addison did it, get that shape. And they've 177 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:42.840 had two of the closest games, including one drawer and 178 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.120 one very close loss, in the last two weeks. And 179 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:51.240 these assistants are putting it down to that simple shape. 180 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:56.519 And that's because you shouldn't follow the herd, do what's 181 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.720 best for your team, do what you think is best. 182 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.799 So they sanning out shape as I like to call it, 183 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.679 and the middles passing just because they should challenge why 184 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.159 are you doing that? Are your middles capable of passing 185 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:12.480 the football? Or should they just run. What do the 186 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:17.159 opposition not want you to do? At any point? They 187 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:20.840 probably want your toughest middles to pass the ball. Kickoffs 188 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:25.320 is another one. A few people do short drop out 189 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:28.919 or short kickoffs, and now everybody does them, no challenge, 190 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.879 No why are we doing this? Even though the long 191 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.120 kickoff we used to go? Well everyone. The thing you 192 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:36.720 do in rugby league is you kick off to the 193 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:38.600 seven or the six and then they send somebody in. 194 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:43.240 We just copy each other. The most important question is 195 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.320 to ask why why do we do what we do? 196 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.240 And this is in anything, any strategy you come up with, 197 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:52.679 any tactic, you come up with the second most important 198 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:57.639 question after why is what if? And what if looks 199 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.120 at the variables? Are you if we do this? What 200 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:05.200 will the reaction be? Right? So, I don't know. I'll 201 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:09.120 use a very political example that's the easiest to explain. 202 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.679 America tried to build a wall between it and Mexico 203 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:22.639 under Donald Trump. In his first term, Joe Biden canceled 204 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:28.240 that war. The what if was the jobs that were 205 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:34.840 lost from building the wall. Right, we want to send 206 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:38.080 troops into a battle in a war zone, But what 207 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:41.399 if is how many people are we going to lose 208 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:48.080 in that war. In that goal, we want to kick 209 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:53.840 the ball short. The what ifs are what if we 210 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.039 don't make the ten? What if the opposition get the 211 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:01.960 ball versus we're kicking off long? And the what ifs 212 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.639 are who we're kicking it to and who's going to 213 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:08.279 get the ball. Maybe the truth is somewhere in between. 214 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.919 So we've got to challenge and we've got to ask why, 215 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:16.399 and then we have to ask what if. Number Two 216 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:21.279 thing I try and live with is develop wonderful friendships, 217 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:26.320 but be careful of acquaintances. And if you're a coach, 218 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:32.360 you'll be intuitive and instinctive about this because you've been 219 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.600 a coaching job. Some of you will have been parachuted 220 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:39.799 into a club and been given assistance or managers, or 221 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:45.159 you might be managing upwards in terms of committee members 222 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:50.759 or directors or something like that. There's a difference between 223 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:55.600 people who genuinely want you to succeed and there's others 224 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:02.240 who will want you to to succeed as long as 225 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:08.480 you do succeed, and they will show friendship until it 226 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:16.759 goes wrong. Now, there was another swig of the team 227 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:22.559 yorksire tea. I'm working with a club that I've worked for, 228 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:27.360 it's going up to two years now and I'm mental 229 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:34.720 coaching staffs and we absolutely come from a place of support. 230 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.000 I do this at a few clubs. It comes from 231 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:42.039 a place of support. So it's genuine support and genuine friendship. 232 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:50.519 And yes, of course there are conversations at times around 233 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:52.960 we need this to be better, we need that to 234 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.759 be better, or maybe we can't get this outcome with 235 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:02.480 this person or that person, but it's in a blanket 236 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:08.200 of support. Primarily, i e. The friendship and the care 237 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:16.480 factor comes first. You have other organizations where it's all 238 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:20.759 about the outcome, and there's been some very successful organizations 239 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:25.200 that have done that in sport. Just remember not everyone 240 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:30.039 who smiles at you as your friend. Investing quality relationships 241 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:35.320 not quantity. Number three is a big one. Be honest. 242 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:42.759 People can deal with honesty. What they struggle with is 243 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:50.360 inconsistency and uncertainty. Uncertainty and I always remember my first 244 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:54.919 real boss in my working life was the Lake Morris 245 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.159 Lynd's are the old chairman of Wigan Warriors. And he 246 00:16:58.200 --> 00:16:59.960 said to me, and I won't try and do his accent. 247 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.879 I was a young man. He said, Lee, your problem 248 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:09.039 is you want to be liked by everyone. Always choose 249 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:18.599 respect over popularity, and I've never forgotten that lesson. And 250 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:20.680 I've learned over time that if you tell people the 251 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:24.119 truth with kindness wherever you can, but sometimes you just 252 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.440 have to be blunt, it builds trust. Long term. People 253 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.880 know where this stands with you, and they might push 254 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:37.200 back originally because they don't like what they're hearing, but 255 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:47.279 those with enough mental bandwidth, they will trust you more 256 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:54.400 because you're honest. Number four, Listen intently. It's human nature. 257 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:58.240 Sometimes we listen just to reply. It's human nature sometimes 258 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.680 that we're planning our and so while somebody is talking, 259 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:07.960 try and listen to understand. Players will also tell you 260 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:12.920 exactly what they think you want to hear unless you 261 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:17.519 give them the opportunity and the freedom and the comfort 262 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.400 to tell you exactly how they feel and how they need, 263 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:28.279 and that comes from you genuinely listening. Number five. Shine 264 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:30.559 a light on other people's gifts or another way of 265 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:36.480 doing that can be realize and promote what people are 266 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:42.799 good at. So one of the greatest privileges I suppose 267 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:49.119 for us coaches is that we're helping people be good 268 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:52.400 at something or find something before they're capable of seeing 269 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:56.960 it themselves or doing it themselves. And that's about finding 270 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:59.279 people's strengths and saying, do you know you are good 271 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:03.519 at this? And as a coacher, we're not there to 272 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:07.839 help them grow and get better. Number six see rest 273 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:14.799 as a productivity tool. I've worked out that I can 274 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:19.880 work in a given week and I'll be fine as 275 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:25.000 long as I have thirty six hours rest. And I 276 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:31.519 also have different levels of working rest within the rest 277 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:35.880 of the hours that aren't in thirty six. So there's 278 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:41.160 some jobs that can do while I'm semi relaxed. There's 279 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:45.039 other jobs where I'm in work mode. But as I've 280 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:50.200 got older, I've realized that I'm not a machine, or 281 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:53.960 I'll like to call myself one. I've also realized that 282 00:19:54.039 --> 00:20:02.279 recovery isn't laziness, and I've actually worked out that if 283 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:05.359 I get that time of rest right, and for me, 284 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:07.519 it's mental rest as much as anything. I need to 285 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:13.119 switch off, I need to not think about certain things, 286 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:18.279 or I need not to be in that zone and 287 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:23.960 it actually helps you performance. Number seven. Treat everybody with respect, 288 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:31.000 the cleaner, the chairman, the CEO, the first grade captain, 289 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:39.359 the under eight reserve player. Treat them all the same character, 290 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:42.680 and your character is revealed by how you treat people 291 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:47.359 who can't do anything for you. Number eight, Try and 292 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:55.319 get better with age us growing older. We're all older 293 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:58.039 than when we started listening to this podcast. Right, some 294 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:01.079 of you might be aging a bit quick listening to me, 295 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:05.039 I don't know. Growing golder should mean we grow wiser, 296 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:09.880 keep learning, keep adapting. Never become the coach who says 297 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:16.200 I've always done it this way. Earlier, I talked about 298 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:21.200 the way I coached shape. You have no idea how 299 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:26.799 many times I've challenged that concept rather than gone no, 300 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:32.160 I do it like this and that's it. Number nine. 301 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:40.680 Spend time reflecting. This is huge. Some of the biggest 302 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:43.839 improvements I've ever made as a coach didn't happen when 303 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:48.839 I was coaching. It happened afterwards. Now that's because I 304 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:52.880 have an in built review process. You know, I always 305 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:54.960 analyzed what went well, what would I improve, what could 306 00:21:54.960 --> 00:22:02.640 I learn? But also what did I learn? And I've 307 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:05.119 always been good at this naturally. I don't know why. 308 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.160 I don't know how, but I'm just a deep thinker 309 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:12.160 of these things, and I find that giving yourself time, 310 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:19.319 that time to rest and reflect, that's when you really 311 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:24.839 realize the lessons. I always think players sometimes get better 312 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:26.680 when they've had a summer away from rugby league and 313 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:28.720 then come back to it because it's almost like their 314 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:31.799 conscious mind has processed all the subconscious things that we're 315 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:35.319 trying to learn throughout the year. It's almost like the 316 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:39.160 mind catches up. It's the same with coaching too. Sometimes 317 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:41.960 you have your eu eco moments when you're not coaching right. 318 00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:49.599 And if you think about modern society, younger generations are 319 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:52.359 pretty good at moving from one thing to the next, 320 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:55.000 and they don't dwell on defeats like we used to 321 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:59.880 do as coaches, for example, they just move on with why. 322 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:03.759 There's a lot of positive in that too, but you've 323 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:09.599 still got to analyze calmly why these things happened. Reflection 324 00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:15.880 turns your experience into growth, into wisdom, into learnings. Number ten. 325 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:19.920 Read every day, and by reading, I mean we do 326 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.680 so much reading all the time. If you look at 327 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:26.359 your phone and read things, no matter what it is, 328 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:28.720 even if you're reading somebody's crap that they write on 329 00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:33.599 my Facebook page. If I see another post on Insta 330 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:38.480 or Facebook, what wise upon me, I got it last week? 331 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:43.279 Why is upon me talking about Australian Like? How xenophobic 332 00:23:43.319 --> 00:23:47.880 can you be writing that? Like I have to explain 333 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:50.240 I've been here twenty years. I shouldn't, I shouldn't bite 334 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:53.200 into it, but it just gets to me. How disrespectful 335 00:23:53.200 --> 00:24:01.319 can you be? What does upon me know? Please? So 336 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:04.440 even if you're just reading that, even if you're reading 337 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:08.960 a newspaper online, even if you're reading a newspaper, but books, 338 00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:11.920 they can press decades of someone else's learning into a 339 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:14.200 few hours. So if you haven't got rugblely Coach thirteen 340 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:17.839 game changing conversations transform your coaching if you're not a 341 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:21.000 member of rugblee coach dot com. To tay you, I 342 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:27.480 can promise you that those two things pretty much everything 343 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:32.880 I can offer without you being in my company, either 344 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:36.920 online via a remote zoom call or something, or in 345 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:41.359 person a seminar or whatever it may be, or for 346 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:46.160 bump into your around the traps. The book and my 347 00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:49.920 online resource is literally or everything I can offer you 348 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:58.839 from an experience perspective. Online there's a lot to read 349 00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:02.680 as well as just to watch, but you should be 350 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:06.759 reading coaching things, reading leadership things, reading psychology things, reading 351 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:11.680 biographies and you should never stop feeding your mind. Soon 352 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:16.519 your rugby league season will end. And this podcast tends 353 00:25:16.519 --> 00:25:18.960 to continue, right And one of the reasons it tends 354 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.039 to continue throughout the year is I'm constantly telling coaches 355 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:24.559 after the season, now's your time to grow, Now's your 356 00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:26.720 times to read, Now's your time to read study this 357 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:34.880 study that I can't I can't emphasize that enough. There's 358 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:39.240 a reason I've got over six hundred books and there's 359 00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:41.559 so many things that you can read that will help 360 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:44.279 your coaching, even if it doesn't say rugby league coaching 361 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:50.400 on the front. My top shelf is Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, 362 00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:58.039 Alex Sir Alex Ferguson football manager, Brian Cloff, football manager soccer. 363 00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:04.240 Sir Alex Ferguson dominated English football soccer for twenty odd years, 364 00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:10.079 also dominated Scotland before that. Brian Cloff, total opposite in 365 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:14.200 many ways, ended up having a problem with alcohol, but 366 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:17.720 he could do amazing things with his team in a 367 00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:21.319 very short amount of time. There was a film made 368 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:25.119 about Brian Cloff and his success called I Believe in Miracles, 369 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:26.720 So that probably tells you all you need to know. 370 00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:32.440 I can promise you that I've had more learnings about 371 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:37.440 coaching from that top bookshelf than anywhere else. You should 372 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.559 never stop feeding your mind. Number eleven, Try and lead 373 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:47.000 before you're given the title. So some of us wait 374 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:54.960 to be the captain before we do captain things. Leadership 375 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.240 isn't a badge, it's a behavior. You don't need to 376 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:03.279 be captain to be head coach. Your actions are an 377 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:06.720 example of leading. Every single day. There's coaches out there 378 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:14.119 at clubs that don't turn up on time for their team. 379 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:16.799 I'm just swingeing with tea. Sorry, and at that point now, 380 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:18.759 if I don't keep drinking it now, it'll get too cold, 381 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:22.279 So bear with me. What are you saying to juniors 382 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:25.279 if you turn up to your session that starts at 383 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:28.839 five at pm, at five pm, and you're putting your 384 00:27:28.839 --> 00:27:35.440 cones out at five pm, so you're still pulling things 385 00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:37.960 out of the bag to start your session. What you're 386 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:43.680 saying to your juniors there? And I know coaches that 387 00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:47.359 turn up later than that sometimes for that five o'clock session, 388 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:50.680 and they turn up in the high vazed work gear. 389 00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:55.440 Sometimes doesn't take much for you to pack your club 390 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:59.799 polo shirt or T shirt into your car every Tuesday morning. 391 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.240 Thursday morning, you could leave one in there and then 392 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:07.640 get out of your car and change. Now, I know 393 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:11.759 in england's a bit cold to change, right, so there's 394 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:14.359 nothing stopping you putting in a coat or a jumper 395 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:19.680 and just making sure you look like a coach And 396 00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:22.119 if you can't make that five o'clock thing on time, 397 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:34.039 ask for training to be later. I think that is 398 00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:37.920 one of the most obvious examples of leading. How do 399 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:40.240 I deal with that? I make sure I'm stood where 400 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:43.319 I want the players to be at the time of 401 00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:46.680